Dog Danger

[JackLuis]

Dangerous Dogs

The Daily Beast has a Photo Gallery of the most Dangerous Dogs. Just in case you need a idea for what to cast as the dog that bites the nads of a philandering Husband.

http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2010/10/29/img-mg---dangerous-dogs---daschund_202936254250.jpg
31, Daschund

Registered dogs (U.S.): 36,033
Child victims: 3
Adult victims: 2
Maimings: 5
Deaths: 1

 

[glynndah]

Dangerous Dogs

The Daily Beast has a Photo Gallery of the most Dangerous Dogs. Just in case you need a idea for what to cast as the dog that bites the nads of a philandering Husband.

http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2010/10/29/img-mg---dangerous-dogs---daschund_202936254250.jpg
31, Daschund

Registered dogs (U.S.): 36,033
Child victims: 3
Adult victims: 2
Maimings: 5
Deaths: 1

All that destruction and he looks so friendly, too.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Somewhere in Sweden, there's a bear who knows all about ferocious weiner dogs!

 

[TE999]

I notice a lot of these dogs attack, maim and kill children...even Wiener Dogs. They become jealous of babies or toddlers and go after them...sometimes in their cribs or playpens. Just because they're domesticated, doesn't make them less a danger. People are goofy over their pets and anthopormorphize them...but they're still an animal and under a certain set of circumstances act accordingly.

 

[3113]

Wiener dogs evidently know what to bite, be it on men or bears. They would seem to be small but effective, especially as they were breed to exterminate badgers (they were known as "badger warriors"), going down into narrow badger burrows, clamping down on their prey, and holding on as their owners pulled them out by the tail. They were hunting dogs and in packs were known to go after wild boars and wolverines.

You breed a dog to do that and, well, you get what you pay for. It ain't afraid of nothin' and it's not letting go once it clamps down.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

Little dogs are meaner than big dogs sometimes, lol.
I have two Min-Pins, and they're not huge fans of new people, at first. Then they get over it.
But... they think children are a terrible, awful, horrible idea.
My new niece was only a few months old last Christmas, and my male dog had pretty much ignored her.
Then she woke up.
Then she started screaming.
It took about thirty seconds for my doggie to get nervous about it..
and about two minutes before he started growling and tried to lunge her.
Yes, mommy (me) already had her finger in his collar and was getting ready to take him elsewhere in the house.

I think small dogs have little man's disease.

 

[3113]

I looked though the info, and I'm not sure we can trust it. First, it doesn't give you a percentage. You look and see that one dog has many attacks and deaths (and so, presumably is dangerous), but then maybe there are thousands of that dog owned in the U.S. You look at another dog that has only one attack and no deaths, but there's only a few hundred of that dog in the U.S. Percentage wise, the popular dog may have as little a chance of killing someone as the less popular dog. It's only the number of such dogs owned that skews things.

And then there's the question of what the dog was trained to do. The website doesn't tell you if that german shepherd has high attack, maiming and death numbers because such dogs are used by the police, army and as guard dogs. Does it count as an attack if the dog's owner yells "kill!" and the dog obediently does? Of it the dog only attacked someone who was breaking into the owner's house (including kids) or if the dog was trying to protect said owner from harm? And what about dogs that were abused?

 

[cloudy]

I looked though the info, and I'm not sure we can trust it. First, it doesn't give you a percentage. You look and see that one dog has many attacks and deaths (and so, presumably is dangerous), but then maybe there are thousands of that dog owned in the U.S. You look at another dog that has only one attack and no deaths, but there's only a few hundred of that dog in the U.S. Percentage wise, the popular dog may have as little a chance of killing someone as the less popular dog. It's only the number of such dogs owned that skews things.

And then there's the question of what the dog was trained to do. The website doesn't tell you if that german shepherd has high attack, maiming and death numbers because such dogs are used by the police, army and as guard dogs. Does it count as an attack if the dog's owner yells "kill!" and the dog obediently does? Of it the dog only attacked someone who was breaking into the owner's house (including kids) or if the dog was trying to protect said owner from harm? And what about dogs that were abused?

I have to agree.

Of those dogs pictured, I've owned numerous Pits (#1, of course ), a Chow (#2), an Akita (#4), a Blue Heeler (#10), a St. Bernard (#25), numerous Australian Shepherds (#27), and several Labs (Labs? Seriously?).

Out of all those, the only one that EVER offered to bite anyone at all was an Aussie, and he thought that he was protecting me at the time.

Its a bunch of bullshit, as most "dangerous dogs" lists are. Any dog can be dangerous, and any dog can be a big baby - depends on the handler.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

While psychosis does occur in canines just as it does in humans, no properly socialized normal dog is dangerous. Even my German Wirehaired Pointer, who guarded the Cub like he was her own, was quite friendly once she was assured that it was okay for you to be in the house/yard.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Tell me, Jack, where do terroriers fit in on the scale?

 

[TE999]

I read somewhere ( I think it was a poll of veterinarians) that the dog with the most biting incidents per capita was the Cocker Spaniel, which is both remarkably stupid and quite touchy. I don't remember seeing it on that list.

 

[R. Richard]

Wiener dogs evidently know what to bite, be it on men or bears. They would seem to be small but effective, especially as they were breed to exterminate badgers (they were known as "badger warriors"), going down into narrow badger burrows, clamping down on their prey, and holding on as their owners pulled them out by the tail. They were hunting dogs and in packs were known to go after wild boars and wolverines.

You breed a dog to do that and, well, you get what you pay for. It ain't afraid of nothin' and it's not letting go once it clamps down.

You have to understand that a badget is damn near indestructable from above, due to a thick, matted coat of fur. So the badger's strategy is 'get low!' The dachshund can get even lower and grab the badger by the throat. The dachshund is a brave little beastie and best left alone.

 

[JackLuis]

I looked though the info, and I'm not sure we can trust it. First, it doesn't give you a percentage. --?

I agree with you the article was less that difinitive.

The only dog I ever had that was aggressive was a 15 pound fox terrorist.

My current dog is a half Lab/ half Doberman and he is very calm and loving, except for cats, other than his own, and squirrels. He sounds ferocious, until the door opens and he can see the person. My wife taught him not to bark by, making him get a toy rabbit in his mouth, before she opens the door.

Now when he sees people on the ball field behind our house he runs and get a toy and shakes it at them. They think it's cute! Little do they know that he is warning them not to come too close.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have to agree.

Of those dogs pictured, I've owned numerous Pits (#1, of course ), a Chow (#2), an Akita (#4), a Blue Heeler (#10), a St. Bernard (#25), numerous Australian Shepherds (#27), and several Labs (Labs? Seriously?).

Out of all those, the only one that EVER offered to bite anyone at all was an Aussie, and he thought that he was protecting me at the time.

Its a bunch of bullshit, as most "dangerous dogs" lists are. Any dog can be dangerous, and any dog can be a big baby - depends on the handler.

It appears we agree on something after all...

I have owned said #1 killer dog, two in fact at the same time in a household with two small children. Both dogs loved the kids and would do anything to protect them.

I also have a beagle, she hasn't bitten anyone but does warn them with a growl.

I have had a German Shepard in the past...he was a wonderful dog. He would sit in the back yard, there was no fence, watching the kids play. They crawled all over him, he just sat there licking them and taking whatever they dished out.

The only problem was he wouldn't let an adult past him, even if they were the parents of children in our backyard. He never bit anyone, just warned them.

The best dog I ever had, he was so good with small children, was a pitbull-rottie mix. He was so sweet and looked so intimidating. Yet he was the biggest scaredy-cat you ever saw. Yes he killed the easter bunny, but he would run from a mouse and hide behind someone.

 

[Handley_Page]

It may be worth remembering that any dog is 98% wolf.